Left wing of a bird : poems / Arthur Vogelsang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogelsang, Arthur.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2003]

Summary:

"Vogelsang's poetry is both abrasive and generous." -- John Ashbery

"Vogelsang has found an interrogating voice at once dissembling and direct." -- Stanley Plumly

The poems in Vogelsang's fourth collection are events of great pressure, tension, and heat. In a language pitched somewhere just above the vernacular, Vogelsang often connects with the classics and grapples with concerns of our time, offering a singular experience -- emotionally affecting and intellectually provocative poetry.

Arthur Vogelsang is the author of "A Planet, Twentieth Century Women," and "Cities and Towns," which received the Juniper Prize. He is the coeditor of "The American Poetry Review "and teaches at New England College. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Philadelphia."Left Wing of a Bird is the sixtieth title to be published by Sarabande Books, a nonprofit literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1994 to publish poetry and short fiction, Sarabande's mission is to disburse these works with diligence and integrity, and to serve as an educational resource to teachers and students of creative writing. Since the 1996 debut of the press, our titles have received positive review attentions from nationally distinguished media including "The New York Times Book Review, "Publisher's Weekly, "Kirkus Reviews, "American Book Review, "Small Press, "The Nation, and "Library Journal.

Contents:

1 Left Wing of a Bird

Cheer Up 3

Barnes Hill 5

The Gods 6

Gauguin in a Van 7

Wrong Wrong 8

The Writers 9

Adults 11

Brutal Lesson 12

Trans Trans 13

Round Trip 10/4-11/10 14

Rules From a Song 15

Defenseless in China 16

The Red City 17

Double Bind 18

Thinking on My Trip West 20

Critical 21

Phila 22

It's 23

770 MPH 25

They Let Him Have a Rowboat 26

The Lab 27

The Line 28

Which Way? 29

A House in the Midwest 31

In Another Country 32

Ardennes Forest (Soldiers) 33

A Word in Edgewise (Sailors) 35

Bi-Coastal (Sailors of the Air) 36

Re Who 38

Folk Song 39

Almost Indigent 40

Hamnet 41

2 Come to Your Senses

Flowers on a Beach 45

Liquids in Quantities 48

Graves in Johnson County 50

Instructions to the Alien 58

Three 60

The Writers 2 62

3 Right Wing of a Bird

After 65

Carolinas 66

Baltimore 68

Archive on Ice (After the Act, Pig on the Ice) 70

Words in Your Mouth 73

Gone 74

The Iliad, the Odyssey, and Heart of Darkness 76.

ISBN:

1889330876

1889330884

OCLC:

51020378